(v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
(v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
(v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.
(v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
(v. t.) To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
(2) The parameters of the multiplet signal are consistent with the presence of a sterically constrained tyrosine phenoxyl radical.
(3) The variations in behavior and physiology across the year were considered in terms of factors constraining the timing of the natural reproductive pattern.
(4) First, chains are constrained by their inability to penetrate the boundary.
(5) The prepro form of ET-1 was inactive, suggesting that mature ET peptides are constrained in an inactive conformation within the preproET species.
(6) A method is presented for testing the equality of some or all (constrained or unconstrained) optima in a response surface analysis.
(7) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(8) Often, a single, constrained peptide analogue can be designed, which will have many of the desired biological and biophysical properties, and will serve as a template.
(9) Because the rigor of the present day "scientific method" demands clearcut and reproducible results and investigations require predictable performance of the parasite in an evenly maintained host that is in a highly constrained environment, we should not wonder why we cannot produce the events of nature.
(10) In the first stage, the constrained random ordering of the stimuli is generated as specified by the user.
(11) Intrauterine influences which retard fetal weight gain may irrecoverably constrain the growth of the airways.
(12) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(13) If correctional institutions constrain inmates' access to social benefits, means exist to protect incarcerated people's rights in health studies.
(14) Her ability to estimate time intervals and general time perspective was constrained by her impoverished store of knowledge for personal experiences.
(15) The immobilization successfully constrained the anteroinferior displacement of the maxilla and zygomatic bone on the fused side.
(16) In a previous study of push-off without plantar flexion it was shown that the transformation of knee angular velocity into translation of the body is constrained by the fact that velocity difference between hip and ankle has to reach its peak value a long time before the knee is extended.
(17) As there is no evidence for a close evolutionary link between kinesin and myosin, these and other similarities may represent convergence to set of common functional properties which are constrained by the requirements of protein structure and the use of ATP hydrolysis as a source of energy.
(18) By lengthening the ventricular effective refractory period, trains of conditioning stimuli could prevent or terminate tachycardias, but this possibility is constrained, at present, by the spatial limitations of the technique.
(19) The data suggest that the biological effects of RA may be constrained or augmented by differential regulation of its own receptor gene expression.
(20) A biological process serves as a source and its products are subject t] local dispersive fluid forces constrained by chaotic streamlines.
Restraint
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
(n.) The state of being restrained.
(n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(2) The current study used the restraint model of stress ulceration to compare the effects of a more potent prostaglandin analogue, 16,16-dimethyl prostaglandin E2, with hyperosmolar glucose and antacids.
(3) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(4) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(5) Rats that were subjected to restraint stress for 18 h were found to have reduced myocardial glycogen and blood sugar levels and showed histological changes in heart and adrenals.
(6) Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs."
(7) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(8) Amid calls for restraint from senior politicians and police, the prime minister, Peter O’Neill has threatened to “terminate” the position of anyone going against the government.
(9) Although B-PELLET rats had normal basal morning ACTH concentrations 5 days after surgery, they exhibited augmented and sustained ACTH responses to five different ACTH-releasing stimuli (injection, restraint, chlorpromazine, and, under pentobarbital anesthesia, morphine or sham adrenalectomy).
(10) Restraint produced regional losses of bone most obviously in the proximal tibia.
(11) The committee responses delineated emerging standards governing specific areas of animal use, such as antibody production, induced disease, surgery, physical restraint, and behavioral conditioning.
(12) Nine of the groups were fed nutrient solutions of different compositions, antacid and sucralfate through orogastric tube during induction of stress ulcer by restraint and a cold ambient temperature.
(13) These observations are rationalized taking into account the ionic radii and coordination numbers of the cations and the conformational restraints of valinomycin molecules.
(14) Even without public spending restraint, those pressures will only increase as our population ages.
(15) The data revealed striking sex differences in body image, restraint and food attitudes, even in the youngest age group (12 to 13 years).
(16) Does the restraint required for head or nose-only exposure of rodents to inhaled aerosols or gases alter their breathing pattern?
(17) Behavioral problems resulting in the use of physical restraint is a clinical problem seen in the acute phase of recovery from cerebral contusion.
(18) Later-born cohorts were lower in Restraint and higher in Ascendance than early-born cohorts.
(19) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(20) The rate of AChE activity restoration in Gd-7 treated axolotl embryo depends on the level of the enzyme restraint and the stage of the embryo development.